Boundaries are personal. We can have them for ourselves without need for agreement from another. We can take individual action to enforce or implement our boundaries. Boundaries don’t need explanations, though they can have them. As Anne Lamott says, “No. Is a complete sentence.” Boundaries are walls when safety is at stake and can be profound bridges to connection otherwise, meaning the more that you know what you want and don’t want and can communicate your boundaries in reference to that understanding, the more connected your relationships will be and the more liberated you will feel in your experience of yourself. Boundaries, when asserted and honored, allow you to feel more, experience more and explore more.
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To be received fully is a gift that is immeasurable. It is not how things go in so many relationships. As I bend my body in your direction, physically ache, and shift precariously and beautifully between the gentle miracle and magical science of restoration through donation and transplant, I will metabolize an experience of love. What I imagine, is that you will receive and live fully with parts of me all hemmed inside of you. And I will become more of myself because of you.